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Have you ever tried to explain to your non-eastern friends what Gheyrat is? What do you say? We weren’t able to find a direct translation to it, but what is obvious is that women in general seek ‘protection’ and whether it’s the protection from predatory animals in our hunter gatherer ancestors, or it’s because of all the Superman, and Batman cartoons and movies we’ve watched growing up, men are wired to protect and women are wired to get turned on by that. Okay, but Gheyrat goes beyond just physical protection, so if you want to make her want you like there is no tomorrow, an ‘inappropriate’ flirt/touch from another guy to your girl, needs to be dealt with ‘appropriately’. Don’t ask me to define appropriate because I can’t, so let’s move on.org

The more I think about it, the more being ‘Gheyrati’ sounds like being extremely against Sexual Harassment. Stay with me, If I remember my High School lecture correctly Sexual Harassment is unwanted sexual attention the only difference here is that the person that decides what’s unwanted here is the person who’s doing the ‘protecting’ and not the person on the receiving end of the flirt.

If you were left more confused about Gheyrat than when you started reading this blog, just know that it makes for good round of charades.

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